recensio.net will create a Europe-wide, multi-language platform for reviews of historical literature. recensio.net is a joint project of the Bavarian State Library (BSB) Munich, the German Historical Institute Paris (DHIP) and the Institute for European History (IEG) Mainz – funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

recensio.net is committed to the principles of Open Access. All content will be permanently accessible free of charge. The reviews and publications on the platform focus on work published in Europe and featuring European topics. The platform’s navigational languages are English, German and French, while the reviews may be written in any European language.

The platform is based on two main ideas:

recensio.net brings together »classical« reviewsEditorial offices of journals or institutes who have only published in print so far will be able to prominently publish their review sections online.

recensio.net en route to web 2.0Authors are able to present the core statements of their publications (monographs or articles) on recensio.net.